Italian man walls up father's body

AN Italian man allegedly hid the body of his father for two years in a walled-up cubbyhole in his house near Rome in order to pocket his pension.

The body was found when police carrying out a drugs probe searched the house of the 44-year-old, who was arrested for concealing the body and also faces a possible murder charge should investigators discover his father did not die of natural causes.

Police allege the unemployed man had bricked-up his father - a former typographer with the Vatican who was 83 years old when he died - inside the cubbyhole in the elderly man's bedroom.

He then sealed up the door to the room with silicone.

He had been pocketing the 1400 euro a month ($A1,780) pension from then on.

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